Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-12


done it to one OF the least of these, my
brethren, ye have done it to Me-" In
PICTURE GALLERIES
we have often seen representations Of
Walter Scot. end his friends or Washing
| ton Irving with his associates; but all
those engravings will fade Out, while,
through everlasting ages, hanging lumt
nous sud conspicuous, VIII be the picture
OF you and your Christian guests.
You see we have passed out from the
! trials into the rewards Of Christian hos
pitality; grand, glorious and eternal. The
! tir5trew&rd oi Christian hospitality is the
Divine benedic,i0n. When anyone at
tends to this duty Gods blessing comes
upon him, upon MS companion, upon his
children, upon his dining-hsll, upon his
psrlOr, upon his nursery. The blessing
comes in a. the front door aud ST the
back door and down through the sky
| lights. God draws s long mark of credit
for services received. Christ said to his
disciples: she that receiveth you
| receivath Me; and he that Civ
eth cup Of cold water in the
name Gf a disciple shall in no wise lose
his reward 'As We have b idso nj | bings
recorded against us in heaven, il will De
q satisfaction TO have written on uufail
| ing archives, the fact that in the month
of may, or June, or September, or De-
cember, 1887, VIC made the blissful mis-
take of supp0siDg that we were enter
tanning weak men like ourselves, when
10 they showed tlelr pinions before they
LETT, and we found out that they were
angels unaWaTes.
| An other reward comes in the good
wishes nnd prayers of our guests. | do
not think ones house ever gets over hav-
| ing had a good man or woman abide there
George Whitfield used to scratch on TIE
window Of the room where he was enter
tanned q passsg9 Of Scripture, and in oae
case, after be Left, the waole household
was converted oy the reading OF t5at
passage Oil me window pane. The
woman of S1unem furnished
\ LITTLE ROOM
| over the wsli Tor Elisha, sud ell the ages
have heard the gyorious consequences.
! On q cold, stormy winter night my father
entertained Truemau Osborne, the evan.
gglist, end through alI eternity l will
thank God that Truemsu O52 rae stopped
! at our house. How many of our guests
! have brought to US confidence and sym
pathy and help? There is legend told
Of Saint Seb2ld that in his Christian
round IL used TO stop fyr entertainment
! ct the house OF g poor cartwright. Com
! ing there one day, he iOu2d the carr
wright ans his family freez rg for the
| lack Of sny fuel. Saint SebalI ordered
| the m&n to go out and break the iCjClGs
from the side Of the house and bring them
II; and the iCicles were brought into tie
house and thrown Oh the hearth, and they
began TO blaze Immediately, and the
freezing family gathered around and
we're warmed by them. Thss was le-
gend, but how often have our guests
come in to gather no the cold,
freezing sorrows CT our life, kirdliCg
them into Illumination, and warmth, and
good cheer IL VINO opens his house To
Christian hospitality, turns those who
are stangers into friends. Years viii 90
by, and there viii be grest changes in
you, and there viii be great changes 10
them. Some day you will be sitting IL
loneliness, watching q bereavement, aDt
you viii get p letter in q strange hand
writing, and you will look ct the post
o1ii;e mark, ead sly: "Why, l don't
know anybody living III thst city;" and
you will break e envelope, ana there
yea will read jlc story CT thanks fJr your
Christian generosity I0rg years before,
6li hOY they hGve heard 8f&r eff CT your
kindly Renaissance Snd Christian con-
dolence, /. VIII be plaster lsrse enough
10 cover uD all the deep lashes Of your
soul When we take peop's into cur
houses as Christian guests, We taae them
into our sgmpGlhi1s forever. In bort,
Holland, s soldier with 3 sword 81 his
side stopped at Z house, desiring lodging
a2d shelter. The woman Of Inc house ct
trst
REFUSED ADMITTANCE,
saying th8t the men otthe house were not
st home; bu5 when he showed his Gre
dentials that he had been hoLorsbly dis
: charged from the army, he was admitted
ana tarried during the night. IL the
} night time there WI5 knocking e. thu
. front door, and two ruff4Es broke in
u despoil the h0ushold. N sooner had
they come over the door sill than the
/ &rGcd guest, who had primed his piece
{ and charged il with sings, met them, and
: telling the women to stand back, | SIN
happy so say, dropped the TWO assaulting
despsradoes dead ct MS feet. Well, now
2 there are no bandits proving around to
destroy our houses; but how often II is
: that we fed those that have been our
guests become our defenders. We gave
5 them shelter first, and then afterwards in
: the great conflicts OF life they fought for
= our reputation; they fought Tor our
! property; they fought for our soul.
Another reward that comes from
: Christian hospitality is in the assurance
. that we shall have hospitality shown to
= US and 10 ours. IL the upturnings Of
. this life, who knows in what city or what
b Iand we may be thrown, and how much
we may need 81 open door? There msy
come no such crisis to Us, but cur
: children may be thrown into some such
e strait. He who is in Christian manner
5 hospitsble, hiss e free pass through al
h Christentcm Il may be that you vii
: have been desd fifty yesrs before any
n such stress shall come upon one of youi
# descendants; but do you not suppose
d that God can remember fifty years? anC
the knuckle of the graldchild VIII bc
k heard against the door Of some stranger
n and that door will open; and It viii bt
e talked over in heaven, and II viii bt
e said: "That mans grandfather
q FIFTY YEARS AGO
: gave shelter to 6 stranger, and now 8
i Strangers door is open Tor q grandson
It Among the Greeks, after enter.ainir!
e and being entertained, they take piec,
:, OF lead and cut il il two, and the hos